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But of course colors have sound!

August 22, 2011 By Jim Raffel 4 Comments

My work at ColorMetrix has me too wrapped up in the technical aspects of color to remember that yes, "of course colors have sound!" It took my friend Cynthia Thomas's tweet shared in the image above (and as the title of this post) to remind me of that. She was responding to a message I sent out via … [Read more...]

Filed Under: color, Marketer Tagged With: color, colors, cynthia thomas, experience, multi sensory, sounds, user experience

Creativity and Coloring

November 27, 2010 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

When you were young how did you color? Did you color inside the lines? Did you color the grass green and the sky blue? Did you color the background or just the object? How would you color today? I believe we can find answers to our creative outlook in questions like these. Photo Credit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: personal development Tagged With: cognition, color, coloring, colors, creativity, outlook, problem solving, psychology, questions, sky blue

Color & The State of Printing Industry 2010

January 1, 2010 By Jim Raffel 3 Comments

Color & The State of the Printing Industry 2010 also appears on the  ColorMetrix Color Conversation blog. It never ceases to amaze me how integral color knowledge is to the graphic arts industry at large, yet how few people in the industry really understand the topic. The problem is that color, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, color, GRACoL, specification Tagged With: Authentic, color, ColorMetrix, Printing Industry, Real, Sustainable

#40 Grey Balance & Printing like a Master

October 5, 2006 By Jim Raffel Leave a Comment

I have written before about the Printing across borders initiative and late last week made a post to the mail list which I feel generated a very good response. My post shown below was in response to a post questioning the GRACoL MasterPrinter‚Ñ¢ program: It stands to reason that that a printer with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: calibration, color, curves, density, GRACoL, gray balance, ISO, measurement Tagged With: color, color process printing, color space, felix brunner, flexography, gamut, grey, master printers, printer, printers, Printing, printing process, process controls, tone reproduction

#16 Matamerism & Color Management

October 26, 2005 By Jim Raffel 2 Comments

This post has be revised and reposted at ColorMetrix[dot]com as Color Conversations: Metamerism & Color Management. There was a good comment in response to “Golden Nugget #15 Which Instrument Should I Use?” Adam made the following comment: “This is because some spectrophotometers are built … [Read more...]

Filed Under: color, matamerism, RHEM indicator Tagged With: color, color management, colors, ink, light source, magenta, metamerism, nanometer, optics, spectral response, spectrophotometry, vision, work flow

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